Description
The Swiss Household Energy Demand Survey (SHEDS) has been developed as part of the research agenda of the Competence Center for Research in Energy, Society, and Transition (SCCER CREST). It is designed to collect a comprehensive description of the Swiss households’ energy‐related behaviors, their longitudinal changes and the existing potentials for future energy demand reduction. The survey is planned in five annual waves (2016-2020) thus generating a rolling panel dataset of 5,000 respondents per wave.
The data contain information on equipment and use for the same households in three different fields of energy consumption:
- Heating: heating system, temperature, use of hot water, …
- Electricity: type and efficiency of appliances, usage of electrical appliances, …
- Mobility: type and efficiency of vehicle, vehicle size and usage (km), distance to workplace, …
The household characteristics collected can be classified in three main disciplines:
- Economics: number of people, age, income, education, type of residence, energy literacy…
- Psychology: environment attitudes, risk attitudes, emotions, values, life satisfaction, …
- Sociology: social norms, performance, context, life events, …
Time-varying characteristics are being collected in every wave of the survey in order to track changes over time at the individual level. Time‐invariant characteristics, however, are naturally collected only once for each respondent, at the time of first entrance in SHEDS. Additional modules with various types of choice experiments are implemented since the second wave of the survey.
Institutions involved | UniNE, UniBas, ETHZ, UniGE, UniSG, ZHAW |
Contact persons | Mehdi Farsi (UniNE), Sylvain Weber (UniNE) |
Keywords | Household energy consumption, heating, electricity, mobility |
Disciplines | Economics, psychology, sociology |
Unit of observation | Households |
Period | 2016-2020 |
Geographical space | Switzerland (without Ticino) |
Data collection method | Online survey |
Questionnaire | 2016 / 2017 / 2018 / 2019 / 2020 |
Data availability | “Access to Data and Research Agenda” |
The SHEDS-Showroom provides an overview of the collected data on household energy use in the areas heating, mobility, electricity, distinguished by cantons and years.
Scientific Report
Publications
- Hoerler R, Stünzi A, Patt A, Del Duce A (2020): “What are the factors and needs promoting mobility-as-a-service? Findings from the Swiss Household Energy Demand Survey (SHEDS)”, European Transport Research Review 12(27).
- Lagomarsino M, Lemarié L, Puntiroli M (2020): “When saving the planet is worth more than avoiding destruction. The importance of message framing when speaking to egoistic individuals”, Journal of Business Research 118: 162-176.
- Puntiroli M, Bezençon B (2020): “Feedback devices help only environmentally concerned people act pro-environmentally over time”, Journal of Environmental Psychology, 101459.
- Holzer A, Moro A (2020): “A framework to predict consumption sustainability levels of individuals”, Sustainability 12: 1423.
- Schubert I, Sohre A, Ströbel M (2020): “The role of lifestyle, quality of life preferences and geographical context in personal air travel”, Journal of Sustainable Tourism 28(10): 1519-1550.
- Tilov I, Farsi M, Volland B (2020): “From frugal Jane to wasteful John: A quantile regression analysis of Swiss households’ electricity demand”, Energy Policy 138: 111246.
- Farsi M, Ott L, Weber S (2020): "Les intentions contradictoires des Suisses vis-à-vis de leur consommation d’énergie" / Die widersprüchlichen Absichten der Schweizer Bevölkerung in Bezug auf ihren Energieverbrauch" Social Change in Switzerland N° 21.
- Weber S (2019): “A step-by-step procedure to implement discrete choice experiments in Qualtrics”, Social Science Computer Review, First Published November 3, 2019.
- Hille, S.L.; Weber, S.; Brosch, T. (2019): "Consumers' preferences for electricity-saving programs: Evidence from choice-based conjoint study", Journal of Cleaner Production (220), pp. 800-815.
- Stoiber, T.; Schubert, I.; Hoerler, R.; Burger, P. (2019): "Will consumers prefer shared and pooled-use autonomous vehicles? A stated choice experiment with Swiss households", Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment (71), pp. 265-282.
- Hahnel, U.J.J.; Brosch, T. (2018): "Environmental trait affect", Journal of Environmental Psychology (59), pp. 94-106.
- Hess, A-K.; Samuel, R.; Burger, P. (2018): "Informing a social practice theory framework with social-psychological factors for analyzing routinized energy-consumption: A multivariate analysis of three practices", Energy Research & Social Science (46), pp.183-193.
Working Papers
- Ott L, Farsi M, Weber S (2020): "Beyond political divides: analyzing public opinion on carbon taxation in Switzerland", SCCER CREST WP2 - 2020/06
- van Dijk J, Farsi M, Weber S (2020): "Commitments and sunk costs in private mobility: A study of Swiss households facing green transport choices", SCCER CREST WP2 - 2020/02
- Stünzi, A. (2019): "The potential of clear policy announcements to reduce the risk of stranded assets for individuals", SCCER CREST Working Paper WP2 - 2019/04
- Volland, B.; Tilov, I. (2018): "Price elasticities of electricity demand in Switzerland: Results from a household panel", SCCER CREST Working Paper WP2 - 2018/01.
- Lang, G.; Lanz, B. (2018): "Energy efficiency, information and the acceptability of rent increases: A multiple price list experiment with tenants", SCCER CREST Working Paper WP2 - 2018/02.
- Ott, L.; Weber, S. (2018): "The impact of CO2 taxation on Swiss households' heating demand", SCCER CREST Working Paper WP2 - 2019/03
- Weber, S.; Burger. P.; Farsi, M.; Martinez‐Cruz, A.L.; Puntiroli, M.; Schubert, I; Volland, B. (2017):"Swiss Household Energy Demand Survey (SHEDS): Objectives, design, and implementation", SCCER CREST Working Paper WP2 - 2017/04.
- Blasch, J.; Filippini, M.; Kumar, N.; Martinez-Cruz, A.L. (2017): "Narrowing the energy efficiency gap: The impact of educational programs, online support tools and energy-related investment literacy", SCCER CREST Working Paper WP2 - 2017/06.